mind

"No nation can ever hope to obtain full intellectual stature or eminence without first releasing, the mental processes, of its people from the yoke of a foreign language as the medium of thought and ex…"

"I think that the decision to nominate the story for a Pulitzer is of minimal consequence. I also think that it won is of little consequence. It is a brilliant story — fake and fraud that it is."

"Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done."

"Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The arti…"

"But how much are the delicate convolutions of the brain influenced by the digestive apparatus? When the mal de mere seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no grey cells, no order, no method —…"

"What I had learned about human rights proved to be directly relevant to my thinking about animal rights. Whether any animals have rights depends on the true answer to one question: Are any animals sub…"

"We find amongst animals, as amongst men, power of feeling pleasure, power of feeling pain; we see them moved by love and by hate; we see them feeling terror and attraction; we recognize in them powers…"

"The more communities break down and poverty expands, the more anxious and frightened people will retreat into self-delusion. Those who speak the truth—whether about climate change or our system of inv…"

"Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine."

"Systems Thinking in Action Conference, an annual event that Senge has keynoted for the last 19 years"

"Great Thinkers: Rana Mitter FBA on Arnold Toynbee FBA podcast, The British Academy"

"Write and bulletin your thoughts on paper so it would be like bulletins in your brain too."

"Suppose the reasoning centers of the brain can get their hands on the mechanisms that plop shapes into the array and that read their locations out of it. Those reasoning demons can exploit the geometr…"

"Shit, kid, thinking about that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just ate a kitten."

"For a lot of people, their first love is what they'll always remember. For me it's always been the first hate, and I think that hatred, though it provides often rather junky energy, is a terrific way …"

"I think your origin is important, not only because it defines who you are, but also because it shows what you have in common with others."

"The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say."

"I think it’s a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit."

"Thought based on images can be neither abstract nor critical. … again in this case intellectuals have worked out theories to justify the inevitable. For unconsciously, they could not avoid being subje…"

"Economic accounting is unthinkable without market relations."